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danwagstaff

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Book and design stuff at The Casual Optimist. Dad. Dog person. Slow runner. Field hockey player. Coffee drinker. Working in the book trade. Occasional soccer chat. He / him.

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Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck has won the 2024 International Booker prize https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/21/jenny-erpenbeck-michael-hofmann-win-2024-international-booker-prize-kairos?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Alice Munro, “the Canadian Chekhov”, dies aged 92

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/14/alice-munro-nobel-winner-and-titan-of-the-short-story-dies-aged-92

#books #canlit #canada #authors

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PRINT Mag's best book covers of April 2024 (including a couple for books that haven't been released yet FWIW)

https://www.printmag.com/book-covers/15-of-the-best-book-covers-of-the-month-april-2024/

#books #bookcovers #design #bookdesign

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Of Cattle and Men by Brazilian writer Ana Paula Maia, translated by Zoë Perry, and published by Charco Press has won the Republic of Consciousness prize, a new award that recognizes books from small publishers

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/17/charco-press-wins-republic-of-consciousness-prize-for-gut-punch-novel

#books #translation #bookawards #smallpress

danwagstaff, to movies
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“It’s like a whole world of intellectuals and artists got a multibillion-dollar grant from the tech world... But we mistook that, and were frankly actively gaslit into thinking that that was because they cared about art."

A fascinating article on Hollywood, the writers' strike, and the state of film and television. There are so many incredible quotes...

https://harpers.org/archive/2024/05/the-life-and-death-of-hollywood-daniel-bessner/

#film #tv #hollywood

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Just read a widely shared take down of a book by a person I'd never heard of and now kind of regret the whole experience :-(

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@kissane I somehow missed the author's hatchet jobs at the time so perhaps this was due, but I felt kind of grubby reading it.

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I'm not sure these are exactly the self-help books my dog needs, but still...

Tom Gauld for Saturday's Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2024/mar/02/tom-gauld-on-the-latest-self-help-books-for-dogs-cartoon

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Devastating cyberattack on Toronto Public Library shows how much it still means to the city https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/devastating-cyberattack-on-toronto-public-library-shows-how-much-it-still-means-to-the-city/article_5366c134-bc76-11ee-9131-0f80c7160cb9.html

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I did not — sorry, I DID NOT KNOW THERE IS A NEW HELEN DEWITT BOOK OUT oh my god

https://www.ndbooks.com/book/the-english-understand-wool/

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@kissane I don’t think you can entirely blame the publisher New Directions for this one. The book came out in 2022 and was chugging along nicely, and then Ann Patchett raved about it on TikTok a couple months ago and turned it into a sensation. I’m not sure you can plan for that sort of thing! They’re a small press and the book is this weird hardcover format like a Golden Book — they can’t just do a quick and dirty print-on-demand reprint.

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@kissane I know. It's really unfortunate. I think that's why she's with the lovely folks at New Directions now. (I gather the last reprint came and went at the end of last month so there may be a few copies out there, but if not the next reprint is due Jan 1).

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LitHub reached out to Palestinian authors and writers to ask them to recommend their favourite works of Palestinian literature:

https://lithub.com/40-books-to-understand-palestine

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Another favourite from last month's post was the cover of THE LOVE OF SINGULAR MEN by Victor Heringer designed by Pablo Delcan for New Directions. I really like the combination of type and colour palette.

You can see the rest of my September picks here:

http://www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2023/09/29/book-covers-of-note-september-2023/

danwagstaff,
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@ronanmcd Thanks so much Ronan -- I really appreciate it! I'm still finding my feet here. Hopefully there will be an "official" Casual Optimist account at some point in future!

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I have a question: what is a good server for a / blog account? It would be a mix of automatic *and *manual posts. I personally defaulted to mastodon.social but is there somewhere else more appropriate for my website?

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